>Tiger Direct sells gadgets to let you mount IDE drives and CD ROMs in external >cases. They connect to the parallel port. I'm sure there's a performance hit, Attached to a parallel port a IDE hard drive would take an enormous performance hit ! The only use for this would be to temporarily transfer files....at a very slow rate. m >but it would look professional. For the drive, the part number is V46-1006 for >the drive or V46-1012. $74.95 each. PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages to be posted to: [log in to unmask]